Drawlings/Paintings

Stadia II:

This work created by Julie Mehretu, is an abstract piece done by projecting maps and diagrams onto the blank surface. The artist then adds different hashses and marks to represent different figures. If you were to look back at this piece, it very closely resembles a sports arena. The spreaded circles and dots around the canvas can be interpreted as the confetti thrown up after a victory, while the different flags above give off a propagandistic view of the countries.

Lying with the Wolf:

The artist Kiki Smith has both a fasination of religious narratives and mythology and a deep respect for the natural world. This work is one out of a series done by Smith from 2000 to 2002, which demonstate the relationship between woman and animal. Rather than showing the wolf as the violent creature it is usually depicted as, Smith uses the animal for more of an intimite use.

Earths Creation:

This painting is fully surrounding the earths nature. Emily Kngwarreye, the artist, was very proud of her country and deeply appreciated the nature it created. Said by Kngwarreye to be made in "green time", which occurs after it rains, the colors represent the seasons with brown to show the dry time and vibrant greens and blue to represent the lush earth.

Horn Players:

Basquiat’s Horn Players changes while also regecting the normal ways of a typical Neo-Expressionistic canvas. On each side of the three panels there are abstract depictions of jazz musicians Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. This piece is focused more on the emotional aspects rather than the three-dimensional realistic view of the work. All around are words that Basquiat used to attribute to the two musicians.

Summer Trees:

Inspired by the Post-Painterly Abstraction movement, Song Su-nam used ink on paper, which is the usual teqnique used in East Asian literai works. The paintings name is influenced by previous Chinese and Korean masters. His mix of past and present is present in most Chinese and Korean works until this day.

Dancing at the Louvre:

This piece by Ringgold is one of twelve "story quilts" called The French Collection. Using her own expieriences with discrimination and trubbles trying to become a recognized artists, this piece reflects the shift towards postmodernism in art of the 1980s and 1990s. As said by Willa Marie Simone, "Marcia and her three little girls took me dancing at the Louvre. I thought I was taking them to see the Mona Lisa. You’ve never seen anything like this. Well, the French hadn’t either. Never mind Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa, Marcia and her three girls were the show. "